Update: Amazon’s proposed drone delivery service will not be affected by the Federal Aviation Administration’s ban on model aircraft delivering goods for a fee, according to a statement obtain by Geekwire: “The FAA filing is about hobbyists and model aircraft, not Amazon, and has no effect on our plans. Our plan has always been to operate […]
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Most people have no idea what RelayRides is, admits CEO Andre Haddad. But with the San Francisco company’s landing of $25 million in additional funding, that could soon change. RelayRides lets people rent their cars to strangers — or in “sharing economy” speak, it runs a peer-to-peer car-rental marketplace. “The awareness of our model is […]
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Google Glass wearers no longer have to look like total dorks. Instead, they can look like chic dorks with new Glass frames from iconic designer Diane von Furstenberg’s DVF studio, available today. “I love aviator shape, so I went for aviator,” von Furstenberg said in a video (below) about the new designs. “And then I […]
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You’re reading about a Congressional vote on an energy bill and want to know which senators reaped big bucks from the oil industry. A 16-year-old programmer’s got your back. Nick Rubin, a Seattle high school student, wrote a free browser extension called Greenhouse that lets users simply hover their mouse over the name of a U.S. […]
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Uber sent notices to many U.S. drivers this week telling them how to join in a class-action suit against the on-demand ride company. The suit claims that drivers are employees, not independent contractors — which would put Uber on the hook for expenses like gas, insurance and car maintenance. It also alleges that Uber has […]
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23andMe said Friday it has taken a step — albeit a very small one — toward gaining the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval to sell home genetic testing kits that give health information. The Mountain View company said on its blog that the FDA had recently agreed to review its request to sell a […]
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The co-founder of a buzzed-about app that delivers messages featuring only the word “Yo” got much more than that in a message sent to him Friday morning. “Yo been hacked,” read the message on Or Arbel’s phone at 1 a.m. Later that morning, Arbel told The Chronicle he is still working through some issues connected […]
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Bay Area creative types swarmed the White House on Wednesday to show off the fruits of their extremely fertile minds at the first ever White House Maker Faire, a glorified science fair and show-and-tell event. Seventh graders from Berkeley’s Black Pine Circle School, a San Francisco man who went from homelessness to hacking, the heads […]
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